Carving Faces Workbook: Learn to Carve Facial Expressions with the Legendary Harold Enlow

by Harold Enlow

Overview

Follow along as Harold Enlow, one of America's foremost caricature carvers, teaches you how to carve faces with life and expression. Enlow shares his woodcarving tips and techniques that make his carvings stand out in this information-packed book. You'll learn to carve a female face, a cowboy face, a Native American face, a Santa face, and more. Best of all, you'll discover Enlow's secret to success: learning how to render highly detailed eyes, lips, nose, hair, and ears before moving on to carving a complete face. Each project is done in small steps that guarantee success. For anyone who wants to learn to carve faces that stand out in a crowd, this is a must-have addition to your woodcarving library.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565235854
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2011
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Harold has written twelve wood carving books and teaches 30-35 woodcarving seminars each year. He is a founding member of Caricature Carvers of America and a member of the National Wood Carvers' Association, the Ozark Whittlers and Wood Carvers, and several other carving groups around the country.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction *Female *Cowboy *Native American *Santa *Eyes *Lips *Nose *Hair *Ear *Holiday *Ugly *Woodspirit

Editorial Reviews

Author Harold Enlow is a renowned wood carver and if he can't teach you how to carve wood, nobody can. Enlow has over a dozen books to his credit and has taught carving for several decades. In this book he breaks down the anatomy of a face. He shows you how to carve in various expressions just by tweaking the eyebrows. The author shows you how to carve faces with life and expression like no other. Everything from an Indian chief to a cowboy, Santa to a witch and a charming female to a wood spirit, even an 'ugly' face is included. Should this be your first attempt at facial carving the author will show just you how easy it can be.

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